Separated at birth?
We have Salvatore in 'The Name of the Rose':
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOR0Y0FlHoFndGktc1qXkOl1oJtCNku1Mi75dkkOAxetRKPnQp77APKE6bVEpqOTNLaSYZUKiWERvHRobebcntKO8RESwIHstxTfv-exSzwoy61il33R9k0ZvdnbsltPSdibKm/s400/salvatore.jpg)
And Elliot Morley, the MP for Scunthorpe:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNvlVgSqgcT1MGCToCQUlYgiF7mu9QN4Ty6CDH-VZaQV7hJxXinevQ_uZmc73uPFWdMiLa5Hm2lbiA-bWgz5GByLFIGVlTC6N8eNGRRaYpcyY3hJhadESWN3wibmgOhGxIeFHo/s400/morley.jpg)
Looks like there could be some DNA in common. And what's more, let us compare some of their stock phrases:
Salvatore: 'Penitenziagite'. 'Stupido, stupido, me not know nothing'.
Morley: “I have reported this to the finance department and Chief Whip. I have made a mistake, I apologise for that and I take full responsibility'.
Nick has linked this clip in the comments, but I think it deserves to be added to the post for the benefit of all those who like their justice to be seen to be done, so to speak:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOR0Y0FlHoFndGktc1qXkOl1oJtCNku1Mi75dkkOAxetRKPnQp77APKE6bVEpqOTNLaSYZUKiWERvHRobebcntKO8RESwIHstxTfv-exSzwoy61il33R9k0ZvdnbsltPSdibKm/s400/salvatore.jpg)
And Elliot Morley, the MP for Scunthorpe:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNvlVgSqgcT1MGCToCQUlYgiF7mu9QN4Ty6CDH-VZaQV7hJxXinevQ_uZmc73uPFWdMiLa5Hm2lbiA-bWgz5GByLFIGVlTC6N8eNGRRaYpcyY3hJhadESWN3wibmgOhGxIeFHo/s400/morley.jpg)
Looks like there could be some DNA in common. And what's more, let us compare some of their stock phrases:
Salvatore: 'Penitenziagite'. 'Stupido, stupido, me not know nothing'.
Morley: “I have reported this to the finance department and Chief Whip. I have made a mistake, I apologise for that and I take full responsibility'.
Nick has linked this clip in the comments, but I think it deserves to be added to the post for the benefit of all those who like their justice to be seen to be done, so to speak:
Labels: Sleaze
Reminded of a piece of childish doggerel which was thought funny by my mates and I when much, much younger: "If Typhoo put the "T" in Britain, who put the cnut in Scunthorpe?"
Now we know.
Indeed we do...
and we know what happened to him ...
ooo-errrr
Nick - Indeed. Good film, better book.
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